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Board sent me email pointing to wrong domain

Board sent me email pointing to wrong domain

Posted: December 15th, 2015, 9:02 pm

by barbaz

Received this topic reply notification from mozillaZine forums, but the links all pointed to what looks like a different subdomain of mozillazine.org (see below)...I clicked the link before I realized it was different domain, and I was presented with what looked like the usual login page, but I didn't actually log in to that site.

What is that "forums-test" subdomain, and is this just a glitch or something serious?

(This is the only notification I have received for that specific post.)

Hello barbaz,

You are receiving this notification because you are watching the topic,"The future of Seamonkey?" at "mozillaZine Forums". This topic has receiveda reply by tonymec since your last visit. You can use the following link toview the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visitthe topic.

If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click thefollowing link:

If you want to view the topic, click the following link:http://forums-test.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2973875

If you want to view the forum, click the following link:http://forums-test.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=3

If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the"Unsubscribe topic" link found at the bottom of the topic above, or byclicking the following link:

http://forums-test.mozillazine.org/[removed rest of link]

-- Thanks, mozillaZine

EDIT tonymec has made another post in that thread, and again I'm getting links to forums-test ... This is not happening with notifications of any other users' posts (so far)...

Re: Board sent me email pointing to wrong domain

Posted: December 15th, 2015, 9:39 pm

by James

forums-test.mozillazine.org was used back in 2008 to test the forum move from phpBB 2 to phpBB 3 and the actual test forum then was actually boards.mozillazine.org

Occasionally some people for whatever reason come here and post with forums-test.mozillazine.org instead of the proper http://forums.mozillazine.org and as a result you may get a email from test link instead.

One or more people in that thread looks to be using forums-test.mozillazine.org